First, credit where due
Snowball Analytics is one of the most complete dividend trackers available: broad broker import support (notably strong for European investors), a detailed dividend calendar with raise/cut annotations, income forecasting, and serious charting. Thousands of investors use it happily. If you're deep in its paid tier and content, you don't need this page.
The three reasons people look elsewhere
- Subscription math. Roughly $100/year, forever, to watch dividends arrive. Over a decade that's ~$1,000 — real money by the standards of the frugal community most likely to track dividends in the first place.
- Server-side portfolios. Whether you link a broker or enter positions manually, your holdings live in their database under your account. For some investors that's fine; for others it's a dealbreaker on principle.
- Complexity overkill. Its power features are aimed at multi-broker, multi-currency portfolios. If you hold a dozen dividend ETFs in one account, you're paying for depth you never open.
The alternatives, honestly compared
Prices as of mid-2026.
- Incomebrook (this site) — free, pay-once Pro ($29). Built specifically for the three complaints above: your portfolio never leaves your browser (no account, no bank linking), the free tier has unlimited holdings, and Pro is a single payment, not a subscription. You get the dividend essentials — income calendar, yield/yield-on-cost, snowball projections. You give up: automatic broker sync, multi-currency support, and deep analytics. Manual entry is the deliberate trade.
- getquin — free tier, ~$10/mo premium. Portfolio tracker with a social layer, popular in Europe. More general-purpose than dividend-first; the free tier is generous but your data lives on their servers and the feed can feel like another social network to keep up with.
- TrackYourDividends — free tier, ~$10–20/mo. A simpler, dividend-focused dashboard with broker sync. Closest to "Snowball lite": if you want automation with less surface area, it's a reasonable middle ground — still a subscription, still server-side.
- Simply Safe Dividends — ~$468/yr. A different animal: research-first, with the industry-reference Dividend Safety Scores (their track record on warning before cuts is genuinely impressive). Expensive as a tracker; arguably cheap as research. For serious income-dependent retirees.
- A spreadsheet — free. The universal fallback. Infinitely flexible, fully private if kept local, and the maintenance burden is yours forever. Most people cycle: spreadsheet → outgrow it → tracker → miss the control → hybrid.
Decision shortcut
- Multi-broker, multi-currency, want auto-sync: stay with Snowball Analytics — it's the best at exactly that.
- Want dividend tracking without a subscription or a server-side account: Incomebrook. That's the niche it exists to fill.
- Want payout-safety research more than tracking: Simply Safe Dividends.
- Want a free-ish generalist with a community: getquin.
Migration is easier than it looks
Whichever direction you move, the work is the same: a list of tickers, share counts, and average costs. Snowball Analytics can export your positions; Incomebrook imports brokerage-style CSVs (Pro) or takes manual entry (free) — a 20-position portfolio takes about ten minutes to move. And if you later leave Incomebrook, one click exports everything as JSON. No tracker should hold your history hostage; that's table stakes.